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Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: New Mexico

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has a colorful display of information about New Mexico. It contains a map, pictures, a list of state symbols, and links to related information.
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Unit Plan
Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: New York

For Students 3rd - 5th
This site has a colorful display of information about New York. It contains a map, pictures, a list of state symbols, and links to related information.
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Unit Plan
Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Vermont

For Students 3rd - 5th
This site has a colorful display of information about Vermont. It contains a map, pictures, a list of state symbols, and links to related information.
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Unit Plan
Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Virginia

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site has a colorful display of information about Virginia. It contains a map, pictures, a list of state symbols, and links to related information.
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Unit Plan
Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Washington

For Students 3rd - 5th
This site has a colorful display of information about Washington. It contains a map, pictures, a list of state symbols, and links to related information.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Bee Navigation

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment from NOVA: "The Mystery of Animal Pathfinders" explores honeybee communication and navigation. [4:45]
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Making Observations and Drawings

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson will help students develop their scientific observation skills and encourages students to make detailed observations. They will draw and describe insect specimens so another classmate can identify it.
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Unit Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Science Explorations: Uncover Lizards and Snakes

For Students 3rd - 8th
An exploration of squamates, or scaled reptiles. Take notes about lizards and snakes using the pdf "Squamate Chart" while viewing a slideshow, investigate the squamate anatomy and how squamates differ from other animals, such as insects...
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Article
Youngzine

Youngzine: Laugh With the 2016 Ig Nobel Prizes

For Students 9th - 10th
Un-boiling eggs, slippery bananas, and painful insect stings have been award-winning topics at the Ig Nobel ceremonies over the last few years. An Ig prize makes people laugh first, then think.
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Lesson Plan
My Learning

My Learning: Minibeasts

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
All you need for an in-depth study of invertebrates is here on this site. Includes worksheets, quiz, useful information, and a fun interactive section where you can build your own super bug!
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Lesson Plan
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Education: Partners in Pollination

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Here is a three-part lesson plan on the plant and animal relationship in respect to pollination.
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Handout
Other

M. Tevfik Dorak, m.d., ph.d.: Mimicry

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes what mimicry is. Describes the different kinds of mimicry found and by whom.
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Activity
Other

The Idiom Connection

For Students 9th - 10th
Users can search this list of idioms and their explanations either alphabetically or by subject matter, such as Food Idioms, Business Idioms, or Animal Idioms. There are also quizzes on each category of idiom so students can test their...
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Article
Healthline Media

Medical News Today: What Are Bed Bugs?

For Students 9th - 10th
Bed bugs are becoming a growing problem today. Find out what they are, how dangerous they are to humans, how they feed and reproduce, treatment, and how to control them.
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Handout
NASA

Electromagnetic Spectrum: Ultraviolet Waves

For Students 9th - 10th
Ultraviolet (UV) light has shorter wavelengths than visible light. Though these waves are invisible to the human eye, some insects can see them. The specific wavelength values are given. Uses and applications of these waves are explained.
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Unit Plan
National Institutes of Health

National Library of Medicine: Entomology in Action

For Students 9th - 10th
Two lesson plans are found in this site. Lesson Plan 1 is geared to grades 6-9. In this plan, student's will be able to list the different stages of the blow fly's life cycle and understand how the life cycle and ADH (accumulated degree...
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Goldenrod Gall Investigation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this life science field investigation students study goldenrod gall population.
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Interactive
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Mosquitoes O Logy Card

For Students 3rd - 8th
Turn over this interactive OLogy card and start learning bite-size pieces of useful information about mosquitoes, such as their diet and physical characteristics.
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Unit Plan
Can Teach

Can Teach: Songs and Poems

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site features an extensive list of poems and songs for every event during the school year. Explore the seasons, colors, holidays, and more.
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Activity
University of Wisconsin

The Why Files: Mosquito Bytes

For Students 9th - 10th
A general description of the life cycle of the mosquito. Includes inforation on why they need blood and how they breed.
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Handout
Other

Walking Well: Arthropod Stings

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has interesting information about stings from different arthropods like bees, wasps, hornets, yellow jackets, ants, caterpillars, spiders, ticks, centipedes, millipedes, and scorpions.